Tale of a tale ~ Chapter IVa
Added 2021-10-23 18:20:26 +0000 UTCIt will be long chapter, so I decided to divide it into few pieces.
During last month's of living in the farm next to the great river, which as it turned out, was built on old oleander cemetery, little girl has begun to dream about her own place. Where she can really make things according to her heart, where her Family and books will have safe life. She was tired of starting everything again and again from the very beginning, cleaning, renovating, building... So she started to browse real estate advertisements. The part of a country didn't matter. What was important - minimum 3 hectares of land for horses, nice calm atmosphere, location far away from cities, small neighbourhood, "lack of civilization". She found old, wooden cottage in the end of the country. Not very pretty but imagination of little girl quickly painted possibilities of changes. Unfortunately her deamon didn't feel this place through photos. After some time the add vanished. "Probably somebody bought it" thought the little girl. But she was still searching the internet from time to time. After few months advertisement about "her cottage" appeared again. This time her deamon arranged nanny for horses and in two days they were able to travel about 500km to check the place.
They were both surprised and enchanted. Mainly by quietness, smells and calm energy of the place. Old house on the small hill with only few neighbours. They decided to give it a try. They had two opportunities of buying this habitat. By their foundation or by asking little girl's parents to became its formal owners. After sudden move out from biological family house in very negative atmosphere, she was able to fix relationships with her parents and sisters. She even forgave younger sister for calling her a "slut" and telling that they aren't sisters because of nude photography which the little girl creates. So our heroes of the story decided to join forces with the little girl’s biological family. Her parents didn't see the potential of the place but they agreed to became formal owners of the place.
So the pack collected stuff in about a month and travelled to their new home with hope and promises (especially to Agresja who, because of very bad experiences as a foal, doesn't like travels in a trailer) that would be the last moving. Living in the new place was quite difficult for the first seven months because... they had to live with former owner - 70 years old man who still treated this place as his very own. Which is understood - he had lived there, taken care for it about 50 years. They were treated as a strangers, those “from the city” who don’t know how it is to live here, in difficult conditions... Luckily “those from the city” had positive attitude towards neighbours which resulted in good relations, at least with some.
Even though it was hard (quick searching for the hay for Winter, lack of wood to warm the cottage, some unrenovated rooms where the radiator pipes broke at some point) the pack has learned to live together with somebody strange for them under the one roof. They have learned to find happiness even in bad days, worked, cleaned. It was time of first steps in renovating, first walks to the Forest, getting to know the soil of this place. But also time of counting days to Spring - when the former owner supposed to move out. Finally they believed that they were making something for years, for their Family. Slowly, step by step, according to strength and finances, place has changed. It wasn’t easy task to clean interior and outdoor area from rubbish, while the former owner treated it as something with a huge value. These months were also difficult because of Wierzba – wolfdog who had enormous problem with acceptance to such strange person. She usually felt grave fear of him. Rogaty...? Rogaty is Rogaty. He was able to break into the kitchen and steal food from the table... He was wolfdog who loved almost all people, however treated them with superiority.
It was also difficult situation personally for the little girl. She had dreamed about escaping, hiding from all people and she needed to live like this. In the beginning she didn’t like this men at all, because of many purposes. After long time she accepted him and after few years he became really nice neighbour for her. When he moved out, left rooms in the cottage, he lived in barracks car on the plot next door...
But to not be so depressive, our characters of the story had found lot of treasures during these months! The old, forgotten orchard with delicious apples and plums, wonderful nooks and crannies amongst the cabin and in their private piece of Forest, amazing animals and insects who lives in this area, and small things left in the attics, cells etc. Everyone's had lot of work to make the home beautiful. Horses in meadows and orchard, wolfdogs with old belts, shoes and other great toys, Driada with keeping mice and rats far away from books and pantry, little girl and her deamon mainly with rubbishes, rubbishes, rubbishes... It was hard work, but it gave a lot of joy. They wanted to create place filled with calm, quiet atmosphere where people can feel the Nature, can search for themselves, can feel safe and good.
During one of the first bonfires they gave this place a name.
"Roots of Spells".
Photos were taken 2015-2016. This time I segregate them chronologically. :)
